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Topic: Support for Megabytes, Gigabytes, and all Units Based on Powers of Two

Can GParted have the ability to change the units to powers of two, such as kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. I strongly appreciate that the developers have labeled their units correctly, and realize that gibibytes are based the multiplier 1024, not gigabytes, and are labeled as GiB, however I would like support for KB, MB, GB, TB, etc. This feature would be very convenient, because all of my partitions are based on this type of unit.

Re: Support for Megabytes, Gigabytes, and all Units Based on Powers of Two

Thank you for your interest in GParted.

The challenge with such a change is that the GUI code, partitioning code, and alignment code is closely coupled together. That and dedicating the time and effort required to do it correctly. If this is something that interests you then perhaps you might look at the code with eye towards improving it (see GParted Development).